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Bought a copy yesterday at the RRHT AGM.
As the introduction states, it is laid out to list and describe as many engines and other products as possible. It also says there is reason to believe that ...

Forgot to mention the Royal Aircraft Establishment collection of aircraft and engine 'tracings' held at the National Records Office at Kew in London.
The 1966 RAE catalogue lists, under Liberty;
Dr ...

Hello,

The chap to ask will probably be Bob Neal. I expect he will see your enquiry in due course.
There is a Ministry of Munitions illustrated parts list but the drawings are exploded views not ...

Hi Roy - long time no speak!

Don't know if you've come across Mark Evans from down Coventry way. He is mostly interested in pre/early wartime bombers such as the Wellington but I think the RRHT Cov ...

A sister volume to the Rathbun recommended by Kip is 'Aeroplane Engines in Theory and Practice', also by Rathbun, 1921.
I have rather overlooked this on my shelf, probably because it doesn't have an ...

Hi Jim,
New Years greetings!
A good general book, particuliarly on airframes, is 'Practical Aviation', 2nd edition 1919, by Charles Hayward. 780 pages, U.S published but covering German and Allied ...

The engine is likely to be the Wright 'Typhoon'.
Aerosphere states that the 'Typhoon', Rated at 550-600 h.p, was a marine version of the Wright T-3 'Tornado' aircraft engine.
The T-3 was apparent ...

'Aero-Engined Racing Cars at Brooklands' (1992) and the sequel 'Brooklands Giants' (1996), by Bill Boddy, have been re-published in a combined volume also titled 'Brooklands Giants'. The 2006 edition ...

The Aerosphere compendium was produced for 1939, 1941, 1942 and 1943 along the lines of 'Janes', and was edited by Glenn D. Angle (author of Airplane Engine Encyclopedia, 1921, head of aircraft engine ...

Gerald.
The 1939 Aerosphere has the following in greater or lesser detail;
liquid-cooled;
7 v-types (ABC, Antoinette, Clement-Bayard, Dusenberg, Hispano, Peugeot, SPA)
+1 v-type diesel (Merced ...

Is there anyone out there who knows for a source of two good Delco distributor caps for a V12 Liberty or information of someone reproducing them.
The cap has an integral coil but it should be possib ...

On the subject of RR tappets, Arthur Rubbra states that 'satisfactory reliability' was achieved by increasing the thickness of hard chrome on the followers to 12 thou.
The Merlin/Meteor does seem qu ...

Gerald,
There is a book entitled 'Junkers Aircraft & Engines, 1913-1945', by Anthony Kay ISBN 0851779859. I have not seen a copy so I've no idea how detailed the engine information is but it runs ...

Looking through Alec lumsdens book "British Piston Aero Engines ...". I notice the Beardmore 'Typhoon I' which appears to be a 6 cylinder water cooled inline gasoline engine of 4207 cu. in. (approx. 6 ...

Thank you for the information, which I have passed on.
The project is apparently to reconstruct a running Tipo S76 Fiat car ('The Beast of Turin') using period mechanical parts. All has been obtain ...